Software Automation Testing -Instructor-Led Online Live

Entry requirements

Course Highlights

• Hands-on Sessions

• Project-based Learning

• Live or Offline Capstone Project

• Real world development experience

• Industry Mentors

• Interactive Teaching Methodologies

Why learn Software Automated Testing?

Time and Money saving over Manual Testing

In the Agile development world, software source code gets modified quite frequently. This forces the software testers to run the tests over and over again which results in increase spending on resources and increases the chances of errors. Automated software testing can reduce the time to run repetitive tests from days to hours. A time savings that translates directly into cost savings and makes software more reliable.

Increases Software Test Coverage

Automated tests can be configured to test every element of the software. It can look inside an application and see memory contents, data tables, file contents, and internal program states to determine if the product is behaving as expected. It can help to execute thousands of different complex test cases during every test run. This is not possible with manual tests.

Improves Accuracy

Manual tests are prone to bugs skipping to production due to human error. Testers may make mistakes which results in the lower quality of software. Automated testing overcome this problem by executing every step in a consistent manner.

Simulate Real World Scenario

It is not possible to create production scenarios for manual testing. However, Automated testing on the other hand can simulate tens, hundreds or thousands of virtual users interacting with a network, software and web applications.

Improves Communication between Developers and Testers

Automated tests can be used by developers to catch problems quickly before sending to QA. Developers can schedule the tests to be run automatically whenever source code changes and notify the team if the tests fail.

Different types of software tests that can be automated

Unit Testing: Unit test is the way of testing smallest piece of code that can be logically isolated in a system also known as units.

Functional Testing: Functional Testing validates the software system against the functional requirements or specifications.

Regression Testing: Regression testing is the process of re-running functional and non-functional tests to confirm the software performs as expected after a change being made.

Black Box Testing: Black-box testing is a method of software testing to check the functionality of an application without getting into the internal structures or workings of the system.

Integration Testing: Integration testing is a method to test all the modules of the system as a group.

Keyword Driven Testing: Keyword Driven Testing is a scripting technique which uses data files to contain the keywords related to the application being tested.

Data Driven Testing: Data Driven Testing is a method in which testing is done on the data that is stored in table or spreadsheet format.

Smoke Testing: Smoke Testing is a method to ensure the deployed software build is stable.

Skills You will Gain

• Black-box Testing Techniques

• White-box Testing Techniques

• Unit Testing

• Static Analysis

• Testing Automation

• Writing Test Plans

• Writing Defect Reports

• Understanding of Testing Theory

• Cucumber

• Writing Tests

• Testing Vocabulary

• Executing Tests

• Software Testing

• Selenium

Months of entry

January, May, September

Course content

The world is moving towards Automation more rapidly than you think. With large complex software applications coming into the market, the industry is now emphasising using Automated Testing over the manual. Prepare yourself for the next trend in software testing and secure a high-paying job as Automated Tester.

The LSET Software Automation Testing course focuses on building your skillsets with the latest testing techniques and tools. This course will teach black-box and white-box testing, automated testing, web & mobile testing, and formal testing theory and methods.

In this course, you will get introduced to Selenium IDE, RC, WebDriver and Data Driven Testing. This course will prepare you to implement your automation testing framework and build test plans, test suites, and test analysis reports. You will develop properties and assertions in code to facilitate automated test generation and create pre-conditions for methods to enable formal proof of correctness.

The course will begin with fundamental principles and processes of software testing. And then move on to creating test cases and running them using an automated testing tool. You will build an understanding of various black-box and white-box testing techniques and put this understanding into practice, creating practical sets of test cases called test suites to correctly exercise software for defect finding. By the end of this course, you will have a greater understanding of testability requirements and build skillsets for automated testing along with fault-finding techniques.

Technologies Covered

Selenium Automation Tool: Selenium is a popular open-source automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms. It provides a single interface which allows writing test scripts in various programming languages like Ruby, Java, NodeJS, PHP, Perl, Python, and C#, among others. It comes with Selenium WebDriver, also known as Selenium 2.0, which executes test scripts through browser-specific drivers. It consists of API, Library, Driver, and Framework.

Cucumber: Cucumber is an open-source software testing tool allowing us to run automated acceptance tests in a behaviour-driven development (BDD) style. Cucumber reads the specifications written in plain English text files called feature files. It scans them for test scenarios and runs those scenarios against the software we want to test. The feature files must follow a set of rules called Gherkin. Gherkin is a business-readable, domain-specific language that you use to provide test steps and expected outcomes to Cucumber.

JUnit: JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language widely used for test-driven development. JUnit is used to write and run repeatable automated tests.

Prerequisites have been met

Option 1

1. Topic: Software Automation Testing (Prior Knowledge of Java Required)
2. Duration: 3 Months

Option 2

1. Topic:Software Automation Testing (Prior Knowledge of Java Required)
2. Add-On:Project
3. Duration: 5 Months

Option 3

1. Topic:Software Automation Testing (Prior Knowledge of Java Required)
2. Add-On: Project &Industrial Training and Paid Internship Program
3. Duration: 12 Months

Prerequisites have not been met

Option 1

1. Topic: Java + Software Automation Testing
2. Duration: 4 Months

Option 2

1. Topic:Java + Software Automation Testing
2. Add-On:Project
3. Duration: 6 Months

Option 3

1. Topic: Java + Software Automation Testing
2. Add-On: Project &Industrial Training and Paid Internship Program
3. Duration: 13 Months

Note: Our Industrial Training and Internship program includes a guaranteed 6 months paid internship (from 10 hours to 40 hours per week) with a technology company. Due to visa restrictions, some international students may not be able to participate in this program.

Information for international students

The London School of Emerging Technology has two levels of fee structures, one for home students and another one for international students who are enrolling in our certificate and advanced certificate courses. The fee for all the courses at LSET is the same until it is exclusively mentioned on the course page.

Fees and funding